A while ago I tore up all the grass along the backside of the house, to make garden space. I also leveled out the dirt a lot. But I was missing a piece on the other side of the steps.
This time around I basically cut strips of sodd out of the grass. I moved them out of the way as gently as possible. I want to keep as much of the top soil as possible. When I was about half done, I got the the slope.
Instead of continuing on cutting the grass and moving it, I decided to just aerate the grass. Then I threw the sodd ontop, to build the area up to the same level as where I removed the sod. I was making good progress and then started noticing I was making a pretty steep slope. I figured it would just wash away if I don’t do anything about that.
So I whent and grabbed a board from by the shed. It made a nice little wall to help hold in the soil. We shall see how that fares, since it should be raining a lot in the next few days.